"There is a view that to succeed as a startup you need to have Dave McClure involved, but we think that's nonsense – Dave is a great guy I'm sure, but the celebrity cult behind startup investing, particularly at seed stage, is silly".
Today the Japanese find the sort of wild amusement that the original Kabuki offered in the ridiculous talent or variety shows that dominate prime-time television, with pretty women, funny-looking men, cross-dressers, celebrities and old people sitting on stages answering silly questions, singing silly songs and happily making fools of themselves.
Organisers will also stage their own "Silly Olympics", including events such as the pea shot-put.
Is James Franco on a stage in a silly pair of sunglasses, surrounded by all sorts of people with unflattering haircuts?
Watching Elliott perform on stage – lively, smiling, silly – articulated the differences between the then and the now.
Once I got over this incredibly silly stage – it lasted about 24 hours – there were more serious questions to face up to.
The plinth has become a silly stage for meaningless "debates" that don't add anything to the real aesthetic life of Britain.
The crowd was waving American flags and "change" signs and chanting "Yes we can!" There was a fireworks display and confetti with enough red, white, and blue streamers that it looked like the stage had been silly stringed.
You've got "Steve Jobs" and the big stage, multiple cameras, silly sound effects and music throughout.
And, of course, there was another YOTI in 2000, when the silly stage of dot-com valuation swept over us.
